First Case of Person to Person Infection of Corona Virus in US.

New York: On Last Saturday, United States reported their first infection of Corona Virus person to person infection. Health officials of united states reported this case of the virus.

Person to Person Infection of Corona Virus in US

The infected person wife is Chicago women and she returned from a trip to wuhan. As per information, his wife got sick from the virus after she came back from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. Wuhan, China have cases reported of the infectious virus spreading to others in common places like workplace, households and everywhere in China.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Illinois health officials announced this case on last last Thursday. This is the first case of person to person infection in united states. There are already five suspects identified in united states. The five case have developed the illness after returning to US from China. The new case is the sixth one.

The Chicago woman, who is in her 60s, returned from central China on Jan. 13, then last week went to a hospital with symptoms and was diagnosed with the viral illness. She and her husband are hospitalized.

Experts said they expected additional cases, and that at least some limited spread of the disease in the United States was likely. Health officials think the new virus spreads mainly from droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes, similar to how the flu spreads.

CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier said

At a press briefing last Friday, the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier said: “We are likely going to see some cases among close contacts of travelers and human-to-human transmission.”

The virus can cause fever, coughing, wheezing and pneumonia. It is a member of the family that’s a close cousin to the SARS and MERS viruses that have caused outbreaks in the past. The new virus has sickened thousands, mostly in China, and killed about 170.